@ARTICLE{Bellan_Diego_On_2015, author={Bellan, Diego}, volume={vol. 22}, number={No 1}, journal={Metrology and Measurement Systems}, pages={89-100}, howpublished={online}, year={2015}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation}, abstract={This paper deals with the amplitude estimation in the frequency domain of low-level sine waves, i.e. sine waves spanning a small number of quantization steps of an analog-to-digital converter. This is a quite common condition for high-speed low-resolution converters. A digitized sine wave is transformed into the frequency domain through the discrete Fourier transform. The error in the amplitude estimate is treated as a random variable since the offset and the phase of the sine wave are usually unknown. Therefore, the estimate is characterized by its standard deviation. The proposed model evaluates properly such a standard deviation by treating the quantization with a Fourier series approach. On the other hand, it is shown that the conventional noise model of quantization would lead to a large underestimation of the error standard deviation. The effects of measurement parameters, such as the number of samples and a kind of the time window, are also investigated. Finally, a threshold for the additive noise is provided as the boundary for validity of the two quantization models}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={On the Validity of the Noise Model of Quantization for the Frequency-Domain Amplitude Estimation of Low-Level Sine Waves}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/90303/PDF/Journal10178-VolumeXXII%20Issue1_08.pdf}, doi={10.1515/mms-2015-0004}, keywords={quantization, amplitude estimation, sine wave, discrete Fourier transform (DFT), additive noise}, }